Brooklyn pols say Adams, Hochul have ignored calls for response to parade shooting

After a 25-year-old man was shot and killed at the West Indian Day Parade, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie and nine other Brooklyn pols sent Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul a letter demanding an immediate response — which Myrie says has been ignored.

“Many of our constituents who have heard public reports have asked how someone could hop a barrier and open fire with thousands of law enforcement officials present in the immediate vicinity,” the Sept. 5 letter read in part.

The letter notes that state law defines a mass shooting as an event in which at least four people are killed and acknowledges the parade shooting does not mandate providing emergency resources. But it also says there is a “moral obligation to do so”.

“In this particular incident there was one fatality and four members of the community shot,” Myrie told the Daily News Monday. “The grief still lingers, the impact still lingers.”